Citations:anti-homosexualism

English citations of anti-homosexualism

opposition to gay people; homophobia

• 1959, Jessie Decamarron Mercer, They Walk in Shadow: A Study of Sexual Variations. With Emphasis on the Ambisexual and Homosexual Components and Our Contemporary Sex Laws:

  Even though this method, if it were widely adopted by American inverts, would almost certainly, in my opinion, result in a considerable reduction in existing antagonism to homosexuals, I cannot delude myself that it would work perfectly or would even lead to a maximum degree in anti-homosexualism. Such a maximum reduction in heterosexual prejudice against homosexuals can only, I am afraid, be effected by what I call the curative method of attacking this problem.

• 1967, The Listener:

  I write 'homosexuality ' with some trepidation, since anti-homosexualism is a prejudice as discreditable as anti-semitism; and I am not the late Roy Campbell. Recent legislation, though, makes a difference, lightening matters for critics, and biographers as well. If a heterosexual subject went markedly after women, his biographer will usually say so. It may be relevant; and It may be no less relevant if a subject of a different constitution went 'markedly after men.

• 1984, Robert Schoenberg, Richard S. Goldberg, David A. Shore, Homosexuality and Social Work, Psychology Press (→ISBN):

  It has always been my belief that social workers need to be, and are appropriately well positioned to be on the forefront of the struggle for sexual equality. With Homosexuality and Social Work we have gone beyond the bulk of the literature which consists primarily of attempts to show that homosexual individuals are somehow physiologically abnormal or psychologically unhealthy. This anti-homosexualism as it was called, or homophobia as it is called, is well attended to in this volume.

• 1988, Edward Alexander, The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies: Personalities, Issues, Events, Transaction Publishers (→ISBN), page 92:

  ... all important respects and "in the same boat" as "despised minorities," now blamed the Jews themselves for arousing "the essential anti-Semitism of the American people," a strategy of explanation he has not yet tried out for the alleged anti-homosexualism of the American people. The accusation of dual loyalty or, in Vidal's essay, of outright treachery against Jews has long been a commonplace of western Jew-haters too "enlightened" and too far removed...

• 1990, The Economist:

  Such terrors about people with aids are only a blurred line away from anti-homosexualism. Violence against homosexuals has risen. A big minority in the Senate supported a declaration that homosexuality threatens the survival of the family. It is these signs that worry Mr Marvin Liebman, a noted conservative who helped found the American Conservative Union but recently came out of the closet in the pages of the National Review.

• 1995, Richard Cleaver, Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology, Westminster John Knox Press (→ISBN), page 51:

  In the working-class culture of turn-of-the-century New York, gender conformity, not sexual object choice, controlled men's willingness to participate in homosexual activity. For his part, literary historian Louis Crompton points out that in England, anti-homosexualism, xenophobia and anti-Catholicism were strongly linked in political rhetoric. Trying to explain why executions for sodomy were so prevalent in England during the early nineteenth century...

• 1999, Edward E. Sampson, Dealing with Differences: An Introduction to the Social Psychology of Prejudice (Harcourt College Pub):

  ... however, to realize that racism, sexism, and anti-homosexual attitudes and actions are not simply problems for those on the receiving end but problems for everyone. Racism is not only a black problem, it is also a white problem with consequences for the entire society. Sexism is not only a women's problem, but a men's problem as well, with consequences for the entire society. Anti-homosexualism likewise is not simply a gay and lesbian problem, but a problem for the entire society.

• 2002, Tom Warner, Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN), page 64:

  In another article, 'Out of the Closets, Into the Streets' Allen Young described gay liberation as a struggle against sexism. He asserted that because of sexism, anti-homosexualism permeates society, leading to the oppression of gays by the 'overtly male-supremacist, anti-homosexual institutions of our society [...].'

opposition to gay people, perhaps implying they have a gay agenda

• 1997, Sam Deaderick, Tamara Turner, Gay Resistance: The Hidden History, Red Letter Press (→ISBN), page 20:

  But anti-homosexualism was central to the Nazi ideology of white male supremacy, [...]

• 2012, David R. Carlin, Homosexualism Versus Catholicism, Xlibris Corporation (→ISBN), page 15:

  Of the fifteen chapters in the book, only about seven or eight discuss the gay movement, and most of these anti-homosexualism chapters are in the second half of the book. This is because I view the gay movement, as noted a moment ago, as a division of a much larger movement, a movement—which may conveniently be called secularism—intended to destroy Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.

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• 1992, Karla Jay, Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, NYU Press (→ISBN), page 210:

  (One of the best of these books is The Youngest Revolution, by Elizabeth Sutherland, who, by the way, includes criticism of Cuba's anti-homosexualism.)

• 1999, Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods, The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics, Columbia University Press (→ISBN), page 125:

  Part of this anti-homosexualism was due to Church dogma, and to political opportunism. Jealous political leaders used outlandish rumors to associate homosexual behavior with heresy and treason. By emphasizing the evilness of homosexuality, these factions could justify confiscating the wealth of those accused. The frenzy that resulted also had much to do with simple scapegoating. Europe convulsed itself with mass executions of anyone perceived as different: ...

mentions, generally documenting that it is uncommon

• 1996, Larry May, Robert A. Strikwerda, Patrick D. Hopkins, Rethinking Masculinity: Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism, Rowman & Littlefield (→ISBN), page 99:

  We do not punish people for being claustrophobic; we do not accuse agoraphobics of ignorance or intolerance; why should we treat homophobics any differently? Other terms have been used to describe the aggregation of prejudices against gays and lesbians, including homoerotophobia, homosexism, homonegativism, anti-homosexualism, anti-homosexuality, and homo-hatred. "Heterosexism" has become the terminology of choice for some theorists, emphasizing similarities to racism and sexism. "Heterosexism" characterizes a political situation in which heterosexuality is presented and perceived as natural, moral, practical, and superior ...

• 2010, Allen Rubin, Earl Babbie, Research Methods for Social Work, Cengage Learning (→ISBN), page 174:

  Although the observations and experiences are real, our concepts are only mental creations. The terms associated with concepts are merely devices created for purposes of filing and communication. The word homophobia is an example. Ultimately, the word is only a collection of letters and has no intrinsic meaning. We could have as easily and meaningfully created the word anti-homosexualism to serve the same purpose.

• 2016, Michael Shelton, Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders: Multiple Identities, Multiple Challenges, Columbia University Press (→ISBN), page 34:

  A 2013 review of terminology found an abundance of other terms, many (but not all) of which were never widely accepted or simply fell out of fashion: “homoerotophobia; homosexphobia; homosexism; homonegativism; homoprejudice; anti-homosexualism; antihomosexuality; homonegativity; homosexual prejudice, anti-gay bias; lesbophobia; biphobia; transphobia; effeminophobia; heterophobia; AIDS phobia; sexual stigma; erotic stigma; and sexual prejudice.”